From ea9cd0f05e72ccc8be83034d43c11dbbd76cafed Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: mpi <mpi@openbsd.org>
Date: Sun, 18 Jan 2015 14:51:43 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Do not even try to dereference a NULL pointer.

Found the hard way by Peter N. M. Hansteen.

ok claudio@, phessler@
---
 sys/net/route.c | 6 ++++--
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/sys/net/route.c b/sys/net/route.c
index 90ad7f11c92..74deb674779 100644
--- a/sys/net/route.c
+++ b/sys/net/route.c
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-/*	$OpenBSD: route.c,v 1.199 2015/01/13 12:14:00 mpi Exp $	*/
+/*	$OpenBSD: route.c,v 1.200 2015/01/18 14:51:43 mpi Exp $	*/
 /*	$NetBSD: route.c,v 1.14 1996/02/13 22:00:46 christos Exp $	*/
 
 /*
@@ -1045,8 +1045,10 @@ rt_checkgate(struct ifnet *ifp, struct rtentry *rt, struct sockaddr *dst,
 
 	if ((rt->rt_flags & RTF_UP) == 0) {
 		rt = rtalloc(dst, RT_REPORT|RT_RESOLVE, rtableid);
+		if (rt == NULL)
+			return (EHOSTUNREACH);
 		rt->rt_refcnt--;
-		if (rt == NULL || rt->rt_ifp != ifp)
+		if (rt->rt_ifp != ifp)
 			return (EHOSTUNREACH);
 	}
 
-- 
2.20.1